A PRESENTATION ON BUSINESS

AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

BY:
TANIA ARORA
TANMEET KOUR
PARMEET KOUR
CONTENTS

MEANING OF BUSINESS

DEFINITION

CHARACTERISTICS

MEANING OF ENVIRONMENT

DEFINITION

CHARACTERISTICS

BUSINESS ISSUES

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

CASE STUDIES

CONCLUSION
MEANING OF BUSINESS

Business is an economic activity, which is related

with continuous and regular production and
distribution of goods and services for satisfying
human wants. Thus, the term business means
continuous production and distribution of goods
and services with the aim of earning profits
under uncertain market conditions.
 DEFINITION

Lewis Henry defines business as,

"Human activity directed towards
producing or acquiring wealth through
buying and selling of goods."
 CHARACTERISTICS

EXCHANGE SATISFACTI
OF GOODS PROFIT ON OF
AND MAXIMIZAT BUYER AND HUMAN
SERVICES ION SELLER WANTS

DEALS IN RISK AND MARKETIN

NUMEROUS UNCERTAIN G AND
TRANSACTI ITIES DISTRIBUTI
ONS ON OF
GOODS
MEANING OF ENVIRONMENT

Business Environment means a

collection of all individuals, entities and
other factors, which may or may not be
under the control of the organisation, but
can affect its performance, profitability,
growth and even survival. Every
business organisation operates in a
distinctive environment, as it cannot
exist in isolation. Such an environment
influence business and also gets affected
by its activities.
 DEFINITION

‘Business environment is the

aggregate of all conditions, events
and influences that surround and
affect it.”—Keith Davis
 CHARACTERISTICS

TOTALITY
OF
EXTERNA INTERREL UNCERTAI RELATIVI
L FORCES ATEDNESS NITY TY

SPECIFIC DYNAMIC COMPLEX

AND NATURE ITY
GENERAL
FORCES
 BUSINESS AND
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
BUSINESS ISSUES

GOVERNMENT
UNCERTAINIT GLOBALIZATI
DIVERSITY INNOVATION POLICY AND
Y ON REGULATIONS
 ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

AIR CLIMATE USE OF LOSS OF

POVERTY
POLLUTION CHANGE PLASTICS BIODIVERSITY
 CASE
STUDIES
CASE STUDY OF MARUTI UDYOG Ltd.

 Maruti Udyog, India’s leading automaker

whose parents is Suzuki from Japan.
 They ran a program to reduce parts of each
component by 1 gram.
 Interestingly, Maruti has reduce its
 electricity consumption per vehicle - 20% in last 9yrs.
 Water consumption - 46%
 Landfill waste - 67%
 The CO2 emission has declined 27% in 7yrs.

ZERO DISCHARGE COMPANY........

RECYCLE ALL ITS WATER....

A-STAR
 GlobalCar of Maruti , is designed in such a
way that 87% of car can be recycled as
explained by European regulations about the
concept of ELVS.

bagged an offer of 35000 A-star from

Nissan in Europe
INITIATIVE TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY

 Indian market 42watts & 36watts

tubelights
 Maruti 28watts tubes

 Infactory there is provision of 3 CLF lamps in

each room, the managers realized the necessity
of 2 and third lamps were taken out.
 In the assembly line, eliminate the use of
conveyor belts.
 Water pumps in cooling towers were made to
consume less electricity by slightly reducing
the size of the impeller.
 The power supply of machines, cut to save
energy.
 The compressed air allowed to rise its
temperature to 32 degree .
 All waste water is recycled by the company.

 Company has used steel crates ,after use the

steel crates are folded and sent back for reuse.
The thousand of parts coming from Indian
vendors are supplied in reusable plastic bins to
avoid wastage.
COMPANY IS PROVING THAT THE
JOURNEY STARTS FROM SMALL
INITIATIVES
AND
RESULTS IN BIG SAVINGS
 ITC

ITC is an Indian cigarette company which is

headquartered in Kolkata.

Established in 1910 as the 'Imperial Tobacco

Company of India Limited', the company was
renamed as the 'India Tobacco Company Limited' in
1970 and later to 'I.T.C. Limited' in 1974.

It employs over 30,000 people at more than 60

locations across India.
Its five diversified businesses are Fast-Moving
Consumer Goods (comprising Foods, Personal Care,
Cigarettes and Cigars, Education and Stationery
Products, Incense Sticks and Safety Matches), Hotels,
Paperboards & Specialty Papers, Packaging, Agri-
Business and Information Technology.

Although the cigarette business contributes more than

80% of the profits of the company, 80% of the capital is
invested in the non-tobacco businesses.
BUSINESS ISSUES FACED BY ITC

ECONOMIC SOCIAL
IMPACT IMPACT
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

GLOBAL SOLID WASTE WATER

WARMING MANAGEMENT CONSERVATION